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8 Tips For Engaging with Your Bible Devotionally
Reading the Bible devotionally is about engaging with the text at the heart level.
2 Reasons You Should Pay Attention to the Use of the OT in the NT
What are NT authors trying to achieve by quoting OT Scriptures ? What are we to do with these quotations? The topic of the use of the OT in the NT matters for two main reasons.
Do We Secretly Resent Evangelism?
Every Christian knows we’re meant to share the gospel and look for opportunities to witness to Christ, yet almost all of us find it a genuine struggle, if not a gloomy discouragement.
Why the Physical Earth Matters to God
When we fail to value creation, we fail to honor the God who made and sustains it.
The Quickest to Anger Are Often the Slowest to Forgive
The biblical concept of forgiveness is so rich and multifaceted that there are a million aspects of the doctrine we could spend years pondering and trying to fully understand.
10 Ways Not to Help a Hurting Friend
There are ways to care for the hurting that look helpful on the surface, but in the end may only add to the pain.
The Lord's Prayer—a simple prayer which Jesus taught his disciples—can also show us how to talk with God in prayer.
How Puritan Women Debunk 3 Puritan Stereotypes
Puritan stereotypes—which go all the way back to the 17th Century—are still going strong. It almost seems like no matter how many solid scholarly books are written about them, the stereotypes will live on.
When Jesus walked the earth, he wasn’t afraid to touch hurting people. He drew people in close. He met them empty and left them full and turned everything upside down.
As ordinary as our days may seem, the world we live in is precarious. The unknowns we live with can threaten to overwhelm our faith and even our very lives. Where can we look for hope and security?
3 Goals of Pastoral Counseling
We need to rely on the gospel like this throughout our lives. Remember, Christ is both the means and the goal of counseling.
The Themes of Exile and Return Are Seen Throughout the Psalms
Given the theological severity of the historic exile, it is no surprise that emblems of exile and the hope for return would appear throughout the Bible.
How to Pray for International Missions
When we pray for the work of missions, we are joining an essential work as co-laborers with the missionary. But what should we pray?
Introducing ‘ESV Prayer Journals’
Learn more about new 30-day Bible journals that help you engage with Scripture and pray with purpose, featuring artwork from Ruth Chou Simons.
How to Respond to Personal Offenses in the Church
Striving for reconciliation with others demands that I love Jesus and his church more than I love nursing my sense of offense.
What Is Distinct About the Theology of Titus?
Titus taught what accords with sound doctrine, modeled godly living, and rebuked those who opposed the truth. The distinctive theology of Paul’s letter to Titus serves these purposes.
Teach Your Kids Their Identity before the World Does
What do you want to be when you grow up? Who are you? It’s one of the most fundamental questions of life. And the answer our culture has come up with is very far from the truth.
What the Early Church Can Teach Us about Living in This Strange New World
Traditional Christians are typically those who take history seriously. If only we might be able to return to ancient worlds, we tell ourselves, all might be well.
God is transforming the city into a place that he intends to live in forever with his people
Like the book of Job, this book presents important gospel truths for people who encounter difficulties that seem incomprehensible.
The Presence of God for the Christian Life
If we know the presence of God as it is expressed across the pages of Christian scripture, it can and will transform the way we understand and live our Christian lives.
Help! I Think I’m a Bad Parent
Are you a “bad parent”? If you think you are, is that better than thinking you’re a “good parent”? Here are some gracious thoughts for those of us who might be wondering if we are good or bad parents.
Rarely, if ever, have we found a systematic theologian so well versed in the data of Sacred Scripture as we find in Calvin.
A Brief Introduction to the Life and Ministry of William Tyndale
The courageous legacy of William Tyndale is one for which any English-speaking Bible reader should give thanks.
Introducing ‘The Biggest Story Online Curriculum’
As a subscriber to The Biggest Story Online Curriculum, you can build a customized teaching schedule, easily share lesson content with your team, and enjoy seamless digital access in the classroom.
Does God Care about Gender Identity?
In this video, Samuel D. Ferguson carefully walks through the core beliefs of the transgender movement, comparing them with fundamental truths expressed in Scripture.
Bible Q&A - What Does the Bible Say About Swearing?
Dane Ortlund shares what the Bible says about swearing.
Orthodoxy Has Always Been Essential for Orthopraxy
The importance of orthodox theology in the early church cannot be overstated. Paul repeatedly tells Timothy to guard the deposit of apostolic truth entrusted to him.
How the Bible Tells Us to Pursue Purity
In the aftermath of this onslaught against purity culture, are we in danger (and are sometimes guilty) of discarding the baby (purity) with the bathwater (purity culture)?